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Audience and organization

Visual design

Oral presentation skills

How to design effective oral presentations

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Overview slide.

OutlineOutline IntroductionIntroduction BackgroundBackground PrePre--Combustion methodsCombustion methods

–– Coal switchingCoal switching–– Coal cleaningCoal cleaning

Combustion methodCombustion method–– Atmospheric fluidized bedAtmospheric fluidized bed

PostPost--Combustion methodsCombustion methods–– AbsorptionAbsorption–– AdsorptionAdsorption

ConclusionsConclusions AcknowledgmentsAcknowledgments QuestionsQuestions

Default settings in PowerPoint do not result in the best presentations

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Keep It Simple Focus on 1 to 3 key points

Oral communication is different than written

Title should convey the take-home message of the slide.

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Figures convey messages better than tables or text

Data on Student Awakeness

• Over 50% of students at the front of the room are awake during the 1st slide.

• Only 35% of students at the rear of the room are awake during the 1st slide.

• With each successive slide fewer students are awake

• By slide 2 there is no significant difference between the front and the back of the room

• Fewer than 5% of students are awake by slide 4.

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Figures convey messages better than tables or text

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5 x 5 Rule: no more than 5 bullets 5 words each

fungi are heterotrophic ( “other feeding,” must feed on preformed organic material), not autotrophic ( “self feeding,” make their own food by photosynthesis).

Unlike animals (also heterotrophic), which ingest then digest, fungi digest then ingest.

Fungi produce exoenzymes to accomplish this most fungi store their food as glycogen (like animals)--

plants store food as starch Fungal cell membranes have a unique sterol, ergosterol,

which replaces cholesterol found in mammalian cell membranes

lysine biosynthesis pathway in fungi is different

5 x 5 Rule

Heterotrophic Digest then ingest:

exoenzymes glycogen cell membranes have

ergosterol, Different lysine

biosynthesis pathway

http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/wong/BOT135/hypha2.JPG

Webster & Weber 2007

Fonts that are sans-serif are much easier to read

Heterotrophic Digest then ingest: exoenzymes glycogen cell membranes have ergosterol, Different lysine biosynthesis

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Heterotrophic Digest then ingest: exoenzymes glycogen cell membranes have ergosterol, Different lysine biosynthesis

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Crop figures to focus on portions relevant to your talk

12 Hibbet & Pine et al., 2000

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Aesthetics

High quality and consistent design of slides improves audience comprehension.

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Contrast

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Readability

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Conversational tone and word choice

Use slides to illustrate your points (not vice versa)

Oral communication is different from written

Talk to the audience and not the screen (eye contact)

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Practice your talk.

Practice out loud to a live human audience

Have them grade you using the seminar evaluation form

Conclusion slide

• include your take-home message • Be organized and concise • Professional uncluttered slides • Practice and don’t read to your audience

• critical images from your talk

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